That's good to know. Thanks. I didn't see that button on the site. I have a 20" rotary table that takes up a little more than 1 cubic foot of volume that weighs 400# all by itself...:rofl: I gues they don't have too many people with machine shops making these kinds of moves.)
I moved cross country from San Diego to Asheville a year and a half ago. (Hey, we'll practically be neighbors!) I did not have to move any machinery, so can't add much on that topic, but have a couple comments on boxed stuff. I looked at the usual suspects for DIY moving, but decided fairly quickly that the amount of money saved was not worth the amount of personal wear & tear. I got estimates from a few moving companies - the important thing is to get a "bonded estimate", it is basically a fixed price for the move. The moving sales rep came by the house, saw the big stack of packed boxes & all the stuff yet to be boxed and quoted something like $9K to move 10-11,000 pounds. I have multiple toolboxes with machinist, mechanic, & woodworking tools. My wife is a metalsmith when not at her day job so she has a monster jeweler's bench and tools. And we both read - a lot - so many boxes of books.
Moving day comes and any fantasy I had had of doing it myself is gone by 10 am as a stream of guys fills up the semi. Around this time the lead guy looks at me and says, "Everything you have is heavy." And he explains that the sales guy gets a commission, but when he gets the truck on the scales to get the actual weight it will be so far off the estimate that he will get a good piece of that commission. And if I had not gotten that bonded estimate I would be on the hook for the extra weight. As it turns out the load was ~15-16,000 pounds so it could have been another $5K that wasn't in the budget.
I do know there 2 or 3 riggers in the Greenville - Johnson City area, but have not used them.
